If you notice fire blight among your pear trees, you can take several steps to prevent it from spreading or claiming the life of your tree: 1  Avoid using nitrogen-heavy fertilizers, which encourage rapid shoot growth on trees.  Prune out signs of disease during the summer and during the treeÃ­s dormant season.
Ruby Bridges: Ruby Bridges, American activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of African American students to integrate
Bridges, now Ruby Bridges Hall, still lives in New Orleans. For 15 years she worked as a travel agent, later becoming a full-time parent to her four sons. She is now chair of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which she formed in 1999 to promote the values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences.